Open thread: Wizards (16-46) vs. Bucks (23-38)

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Washington hopes to get Rashard Lewis (sore right knee) and Josh Howard (strained left hamstring) back in the lineup for tonight's game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Milwaukee has lost two in a row and has gone 3-7 in its last 10 games. The Bucks, however might get starting center Andrew Bogut back. He was averaging 12.6 points and a team-best 11.5 rebounds before missing three straight games with a strained ribcage muscle. The two teams last met on Feb. 9, when the Wizards beat the Bucks 100-85 at Verizon Center.

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Thats what Nick needs to do more of & stop settling for that J. That will always be there and it will be there even more if he mixes it up. He's too good of an athelete & has too good of handles to not attack the rim more, espically when guys are aggressively playing him tight & overplaying him like Salmons is

NY is making me mad. He knows that we already are without 2 of our top scorers and then our other big scorer in Dray goes down so he's like the only top scorer left, yet he has a dumb nonchalant look on his face and gets 2 stupid fouls. I wont count on him to bail us out this game unless he changes his attitude. It might take one of those nights for Crawford for us to win this one or better yet, do it on the defensive end. We have enough guys to do it on that end and win games, espically against a bad Offensive team like the Bucks

Crawford looked nice on offense. The team played about 14-16 minutes of competitive basketball. Don't know if it was the different rotation with Blatche's injury or what, but everything else looked U-G-L-Y. The team was out of sync, terrible decision making, turnovers. Just really sloppy b-ball. McGee's post-slam-dunk-contest woes continue.

We lose by 19 to a Milwaukee team that has it's own share of major struggles. So tired of seeing extremely low IQ players (yes I'm speaking of you Javale) struggle every night not because of his talent but because he refuses to play intelligent basketball.
I don't want to hear about lame excuses that we were missing Dray and Lewis, the Bucks were missing Magette who absolutely dogs us every time he plays the Wizards. Tired of the same excuses for this awful team and it's about time ot end this terrible experiment. If Ted and Ernie have any sense at all, this roster should look almost 90% different next season. if they choose to keep this core group around, we have nothing but consecutive losing seasons in store for this franchise....garaunteed!

N'Diaye looks like he may have a place in the league. The 5 rookies lineup was cool, but Wall or Booker need a jump shot for that to work. Kevin played 23 minutes with only 3 fouls! I loved some of his plays on Bogut. It looks to me that Crawford is better than Wall at making interior passes. That's most likely a product of playing with Atlanta and bigs that need to get the ball, but I wonder if Wall has given up on the Wizard bigs.

I just saw some highlights of the Lakers/Hawks game and it sure looked to me like Hinrich was guarding Fisher (which would make sense, them both being PGs and all). Probably something wrong with my picture. I should call the cable company and get that fixed.

I like the addition of Jordan Crawford to the team as a potential running mate for John Wall. There's likely to be a healthy, yet complimentary, competition between them as they grow together as teammates in coming years.

"I just saw some highlights of the Lakers/Hawks game and it sure looked to me like Hinrich was guarding Fisher (which would make sense, them both being PGs and all). Probably something wrong with my picture. I should call the cable company and get that fixed.Posted by: kalo_rama"

I caught about five minutes of that game and didn't see Kirk get within 10 feet of Kobe. Joe Johnson had him most of that time.

I think BF isn't relying on cable or dish. He just closes his eyes and imagines the game playing out the way he wants it...

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